Lots to contemplate, Randall. Particularly like “good enough” rather than utopian idea of universal community. Also appreciate your crossing over into multiple disciplines. “A jack of all trades is master of none, which sometimes is better than master of one”.
For more on curse tablets, check out this Game & Word.
"Well over a thousand of them have been recovered across the Greco-Roman world, and they kind of read like the world’s oldest Twitter pile-on. Litigants cursed the tongues of opposing witnesses, merchants cursed competitors’ shops, and jilted lovers cursed... well, you can imagine. And my personal favorite genre? Fans and rival factions cursed charioteers in graphic, granular detail: bind their horses, tangle their reins, shatter their axles in the turn.
That’s right: the humble debuff predates video games by two and a half millennia."
Lots to contemplate, Randall. Particularly like “good enough” rather than utopian idea of universal community. Also appreciate your crossing over into multiple disciplines. “A jack of all trades is master of none, which sometimes is better than master of one”.
Coincidentally, there appears to be a mushroom that specifically causes the user to see tiny humans.
https://nautil.us/hunting-for-a-new-hallucinogen-in-the-lilliputian-psychedelic-1282565
For more on curse tablets, check out this Game & Word.
"Well over a thousand of them have been recovered across the Greco-Roman world, and they kind of read like the world’s oldest Twitter pile-on. Litigants cursed the tongues of opposing witnesses, merchants cursed competitors’ shops, and jilted lovers cursed... well, you can imagine. And my personal favorite genre? Fans and rival factions cursed charioteers in graphic, granular detail: bind their horses, tangle their reins, shatter their axles in the turn.
That’s right: the humble debuff predates video games by two and a half millennia."
https://substack.com/home/post/p-204559644